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July 2021
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November 2021
Your edit to St. Edward's School, Shimla has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. stwalkerster (talk) 21:49, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Formatting
Can you explain what you're doing with the formatting here? I'm having trouble seeing how that's an improvement. Is there a WP:MOS style guideline regarding the introduction of horizontal rules in the infoboxes that I'm not aware of? OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:38, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

I do not know much about Wikipedia's editing rules but the double colon shifts text leftwards than other texts in infobox. In the edit above there was no need for that and infobox looks better without it. I am changing it back, you can revert my edit if you think it's wrong. 👍👍 Cookersweet (talk) 14:12, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Merge
Please, I suggest merging the India House, London, cause, already there are [like] ton of different embassy pages, and we are trying to reduce the bulk.

So please, assist in merging the Indian embassy/high commissions to either List of diplomatic missions of India or the diplomatic relations with/of India. Utkarsh555 (talk) 15:18, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

India House have more historic value than just being a diplomatic mission. Moreover the article is more about the building (Grade II rated) and its significance during the British Raj era. Cookersweet (talk) 22:56, 26 December 2021 (UTC)


 * @Cookersweet ok, as you say so. Utkarsh555 (talk) 09:57, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

infobox icons
Please don't add flag and icons to infoboxes as you did at Raj Mohan Vohra per MOS:INFOBOXFLAG and MOS:ICON I had just removed those a month before you put them back. Although they were once common, consensus as changed and they should be removed. MB 19:00, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

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Thankyou for helping but can you provide attribution as I am not clear how to do that. Cookersweet (talk) 20:19, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Do it in the edit summary at the time you copy the content. — Diannaa (talk) 23:11, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Got it. 👍 Cookersweet (talk) 08:21, 15 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Wikilink the article the text comes from. Doug Weller  talk 10:10, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Source at Aurangzeb
That was just someone's website, fails WP:RS. If it's encyclopaedic there should be a reliable source, preferably academic. Doug Weller talk 10:11, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Overlinking
Hi there Cookersweet. I noticed your revert. What's the benefit of all the links to the reader? We have WP:OVERLINK for a reason. Links are better when they are not too densely packed. John (talk) 20:49, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Continuing reverts on Indian Armed Forces rank flags
Your reverts are disruptive to the page at this point. Please stop. There were entirely valid reasons a) to remove the hack that was in place, and b) always to use simpler wikitext if possible. Izno (talk) 16:28, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

September 2022
Hello, I'm Swapnil1101. I noticed that you recently removed content from Indian Naval Ensign without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. For Removing the New Naval Ensign. Swapnil1101 (talk) 06:55, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Central Armed Police Forces: Please don't revert big changes for minor edits
Your revert on Central Armed Police Forces is disruptive. Please fix only the portion you disagree with. Reverting entire section of updates for minor changes is loss of meaningful contribution by other authors. Abhay.s (talk) 11:02, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Please see comments on the talk page. Reference to official government report shows that your assertion about Assam Rifles is wrong. September 2022: Parliamentary Standing Committee On Home Affairs' report Working conditions in Border Guarding Forces clearly states that Assam Rifles is a CAPF on page no 1 (page 19 of the PDF file). Abhay.s (talk)

Assam Bengal Railway vs. Bengal & Assam Railway
Hello Cookersweet, you have removed the Assam Bengal Railway from the List of railway companies in India. But this is not the same. The Assam Bengal Railway existed from 1892 to 1942 and the Bengal and Assam Railway from 1942 to 1947. The two companies are covered in a single article, thats right, but they were two different companies. I think it would be better if all former Indian railway companies were included in the list. Bernhard Rieger (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

I thought it was just repetition. There is no problem in keeping both if they were different. Cookersweet (talk) 21:33, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

October 2022
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